My experience is that even community college classes are 100x more rigorous than online classes through services like edx. And that's saying something, given h

My experience is that even community college classes are 100x more rigorous than online classes through services like edx. And that's saying something, given how easy community college is. I graduated from one of lowest ranked CS programs in the country, and even the easiest CS course I've ever taken was orders of magnitude more difficult than any of the dozen or so online certification courses I've gone through. Until places like Coursera step up their game and start offering something like "honors" courses, where you're likely to fail if you don't do all of the course work, then I don't think they will ever meaningfully replace college degrees.